Voting Literacy, Tue 10/23 6 pm, Visalia Library

Come participate in a “Socrates Café”, an example of public philosophy in action. This session is hosted by author Christopher Phillips, PhD.

Healthy Cooking Class, Thu 9/27 10 am, Visalia Library

Need to learn cooking techniques for healthier eating? Join us as the Tulare County FoodLink Nutrition Educator demonstrates healthy cooking ideas. This class is limited to the first 20 adult participants. Please call 559-713-2703 for more information or reservations.

Travel on the Cheap, Tue 06/12 6 pm, Visalia Library

 

Travel on the Cheap

Tuesday, 06/12/18, 6 pm

Visalia Library | Blue Room

Learn the secrets of traveling outside the US cheaply from world traveler, author, and teacher Heather H. Howard.

 

Birdwatching 101, Tue 5/8 6 pm, Visalia Library

Join us as the Sequoia Parks Conservancy presents a fun program on how to watch birds, identify bird anatomy, and spot types of birds. Participants will practice bird watching using tablets and will know more about bird watching at home and in the wild.

Wildflowers and Insects, Wed 4/4 at 6 pm, Visalia Library

April Adult Events at the Visalia Library

February Calendar for Adults (Visalia)

Adult Events at the Visalia Branch Library for October 2017

Spotted Owls, Thu 9/28 at 6:30, Three Rivers Library

Please join us at the Three Rivers Library on Thu 9/28 at 6:30 for a talk on "Spotted Owls: Our Friendly Neighborhood Rodent Crew." Please call (559) 561-4564 for more information.

Origami, Tue 6/20 at 6 pm, Visalia Lib

Origami with Jonathan

Tuesday, June 20

6 pm

Visalia Branch Library

Origami is the art of paper folding which is often associated with Japanese culture. The goal is to transform a flat sheet square of paper into a finished sculpture through folding and sculpting techniques. Traditional origami uses no methods other than folding. As a result, no cutting, use of glue, or markings are allowed. Join Librarian Jonathan Waltmire as he guides attendees through the process of transforming paper into animals, shapes, and much more. No previous origami experience required.

West African Textiles, Thu 5/18 6:30 pm, Three Rivers Library

West African Textiles

 Thursday, May 18, 2017 at 6:30 pm

Three Rivers Library

42052 Eggers Drive

Three Rivers, CA 93271
(559) 561-4564

Please join us in Three Rivers for this exciting presentation, West African Textiles!

Helen Bauer spent two years in Senegal as a Peace Corps volunteer. She will be bringing a trunk of African textiles for people to touch and try on. We will see how they are woven and the source of the dyes.

May Adult Events - Visalia Branch Library

Creating Peace and Inner Joy, Tues, 5/9 at 6:30 pm, Visalia Library

Mental Health Month Event

Creating Peace and Inner Joy

Cindy Reynolds: Marriage and Family Therapist

Tuesday, May 9 at 6:30 pm

Visalia Library

 

 

Mystery Reader's Book Group, Wed 4/19 at 6:30

Mystery Reader's Book Group

Wednesday, April 19 at 6:30

Visalia Branch Library

 

“April” Mysteries

• Mia Quinn mysteries by April Henry
• FBI agent Ana Grey by April Smith
• April Taylor (British author – maybe only on Amazon)
• Immortal Descendents Series by April White (sort of mysteries)
• Joe Pickett’s series (daughter is April) by C.J. Box
• The Ides of April by Lindsey Davis (Ancient Rome mysteries).
• In Crazy Blood by T. Jefferson Parker (Wylie falls in love with April Holly)

For May we will all read the same book - INTERVENTION by Marilyn Meredith. You may pick up a copy at the reference desk (559-713-2703) any hour that the library is open.

Read and Cook Program, 4/18 & 4/25

What could be better than reading, cooking, and eating? In partnership with FoodLink of Tulare County, the Exeter Branch of the Tulare County Library hosts the Read and Cook Program that includes a book club and cooking class. The program is FREE and designed for adults.

First, pick up the book, What the World Eats, at the Exeter Branch Library on Tuesday, April 4.

Next, read this fascinating book during the month and join us on Tuesday, April 18 from 6:30 to 7:30pm to discuss the book at the library.

Follow up with the cooking class on Tuesday, April 25, from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. Participants are invited to attend the class at FoodLink of Tulare County located at 611 2^nd Street in Exeter.  Reading the book is not a pre-requisite to attending the cooking class.

Huntington Library Trip, Wed 4/26

The Friends of the Three Rivers Library have organized a trip to the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino! If you'd like to join the Wednesday, April 26th trip you must contact the coordinators by Wednesday, April 5th. Please click on the flyer for all of the details!

Independent Film, My Love, Don't Cross That River, Tue 3/28 at 6:00 pm, Visalia Library

The potent mix of joy and sorrow presented simply in the documentary “My Love, Don’t Cross That River” is enormously affecting, devastating in fact. Mo-young Jin’s film, a smash hit in Korea where it became the country’s biggest independent film ever, follows the 75-year marriage of Byong-man Jo and Gye-yeul Kang, or Hubby and Honey, as they refer to each other - www.latimes.com

Independent Movie

'Wondrous Boccaccio'

Tuesday, February 28 at 6 pm

Visalia Branch Library

Set against the backdrop of a 14th century, black plague-stricken Florence, ten young men and women escape to a country estate where they spend their days telling stories of love, fate, and resurrection.

From legendary Italian filmmaking brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, directors of the Palme d'Or winning Fiorile and Golden Bear award-winning Caesar Must Die, Wondrous Boccaccio is a visual and poetic tribute to the stories that emerged from one of the darkest periods in Italian history.

 

 

Stories of Allensworth, September 17th, 10 am at Visalia Branch

VISALIA LIBRARY HOSTS STORIES OF ALLENSWORTH

Join us at the Visalia Branch of the Tulare County Library on Saturday, September 17^th at 10:00 am for ‘Stories of Allensworth’.  With the support of the 'Friends of Allensworth' we will a step back in time  and be inspired and entertained as we welcome Josephine Triplett, a descendant of the original settlers, and George Finley, former principal of Allensworth School.  Guests will have an opportunity to meet and speak to three Buffalo Soldiers, portrayed by Emmett Harden, Cecelia Pope Harden and Hazel Kennedy, who are joining us to tell of their history and celebrate their 150^th anniversary.  The Friends of Allensworth will be on hand to answer questions and show memorabilia from the town.

Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park is unique among the State Parks in California in that it is named for an African American Soldier and is the only state park in Tulare County. Col. Allen Allensworth was a former slave, retired chaplain of a regiment of Buffalo Soldiers and the highest ranking African American at the time of his service.  He and four other settlers decided to come to Tulare County in 1908 to create their own version of the “American Dream” and started a colony of African American people, giving them the chance to make their own way and to thrive without oppression.  Allensworth, at its height in 1914, was home to more than 200 inhabitants, boasted a Tulare County Library branch, a school, post office and numerous businesses and farms.

The event is free and open to anyone.  The Library is located at 200 W. Oak Ave, Visalia, CA 93291. For more information about this program and other library events, call (559) 713-2703. The Tulare County Library serves all the citizens of Tulare County with locations in fifteen communities, four book machines, and online at www.tularecountylibrary.org.  Like the Library on Facebook www.facebook.com/tularecountylibrary or follow us on Twitter twitter.com/TulareCountyLib.

Mystery Readers Book Group

Mystery Readers Book Group

Sponsored by The Friends of the Library 

(559) 713-2709

 

For June: This month's theme is animals. Read any mystery featuring an animal!

Next Meeting
June 15 at 6:30pm

Come and bring a friend!!

Suggestions:

Lorna Barrett: Tricia Miles, running a mystery bookstore, and the cat Miss Marple, in fictional small-town Stoneham, New Hampshire, a town full of bookstores: Murder Is Binding (2008), Book Clubbed (2014), A Fatal Chapter (2015)

 

Laurien Berenson: Melanie Travis, a special education teacher who shows her standard poodles in dog shows, in Connecticut: A Pedigree To Die For (1995), Doggie Day Care Murder (2008), Death of a Dog Whisperer (2014)

 

Barbara Block: Robin Light, a pet store owner in Syracuse, New York:Chutes and Adders (1994), Salt City Blues (2005), No Good Deed (2007)

Todd Borg: Owen McKenna, an ex-San Francisco homicide inspector turned private investigator, and his Harlequin Great Dane, Spot, at Lake Tahoe, California, and Nevada: Tahoe Deathfall (2001), Tahoe Avalanche (2008), Tahoe Blue Fire (2015)

Blaize Clement: Dixie Hemingway, a former sheriff’s deputy, now a professional pet sitter, in Sarasota, Florida: Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter (2005), Even Cat Sitters Get the Blues (2008), The Cat Sitter’s Whiskers (2015)

Susan Conant: Holly Winter, a dog trainer and magazine columnist in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the Dog Lovers mysteries: A New Leash on Death (1989), Gaits of Heaven (2006), Sire and Damn (2015)

Sue Henry: Maxine “Maxie” McNab, a 60-something Alaskan widow, exploring the USA in her Winnebago with her faithful companion, miniature dachshund Stretch: The Serpents Trail (2004), The Refuge (2007), The End of the Road (2009)

Linda O. Johnston: Kendra Ballantyne, an attorney and freelance pet sitter in Los Angeles, California: Sit, Stay, Slay (2005), The Fright of the Iguana (2007), Feline Fatale (2010)

David Rosenfelt: Few can rival attorney Andy Carpenter's affection for golden retrievers, especially his own beloved Tara: Open and Shut (2002), Hounded (2014), Who Let the Dog Out? (2015)

Clea Simon: Pru Marlowe, an animal psychic returning to her hometown in the Berkshires, New York: Dogs Don’t Lie (2011), Kittens Can Kill (2015), When Bunnies Go Bad (2016)

Fran Stewart: Biscuit McKee, a librarian, and her cat, Marmalade, in Martinsville, a small town in northern Georgia: Orange as Marmalade (2004), Green as a Garden Hose (2005), Gray as Ashes (2014)